Ventilated can cover



Patented Apr. 27, 1.926. Y

inane UNITED STATESv PATENT oFFlcE. Y

JULIUS HEUSSER, OF CLEAR LAKE, W'ISCGNSIN.

VENTILATED CAN COVER.

Application filed April 23, 1925. Serial No. 25,407.

and it is the object of such invention to pro- Y vide a singleventilated cover having an external, continuous seat, which will littightly upon the necks or" cans, whether said necks be rather widelyliared,or flared to a less eX- tent. These .flared neck ends arecommonly 20 provided with openings which are instrumental in securingthe can tops to the cans for shipment, and unless a ventilated cover,used upon a can o1 this character, tightly lits the flared end of theneck, there is danger oi flies or other insects entering the can throughthe openings in question. It is there tore of extreme importance toprovide for tight engagement between the ventilated cover and the llaredneck, regardless of the degree to which the latter is iiared.VYOrdinarily, in milk and cream cans as now man ufactiired,the angle ofthe Hare is either 33 or 370, and it is my intent at the present time,to provide a closure which will tightly Vengage the neck of either stylecan, it being understood however, that the invention is not restrictedto any two angles on kthe external llave-engaging seat.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part ol this application, Figures land 2 are vertical'sectional views partly in elevation showing' theapplication of the improved ventilated cover to can necks having`different liares.

In the drawingabove briefly described, C designates a ventilated coverwhose general construction forms no part of the present invention but isprotected by my pending U. S. application Serial No. 17,790, filed March23, 1925. It is the unique seat only of the cover which I seek toprotect by the present application. This seat is designated in a generalWay by the character S, it is disposed at the lower exterior portion ofthe cover C, and is continuous. Moreover, the seat has an uppercontinuous bevel l and y lower continuous bevel 2, these bevels l and ilbeing' disposed attwo distinct angles withrespect tothe vertical orhorizontal. Thus, one o'lthe bevelseat portions will tightly rest upona. can neck 'flared at, one angle, while the other bevel seat portionwill similarlj.v engage a ditlerent sized neck having a ilared end ata'dill'erent angle. This will .readily be seen by con'iparing`I Figs. land 2.

T 1. .Il y in the `preferred iorm oi construction, when the cover ismade to t standard cans of the sizes and types now found yupon themarket, one of the bevel seat portionswill be disposed at an vangle of33", andthe other at an angle ot 37o. These particular angles howeverare not shown in the drawing, las

the difference between them would be sok wise, two sets of ventilatedclosures would be necessary, havingl seats with dilierent bevels to litthe different llares oi can necks, which obviously would be highlyin'ipractical,

excellent results are obtainable from the details shown, they yarepreferably followed. However, within the scope of theinvention asclaimed, modifications may be made.

l claim:

A ventilated cover having' a continuous external seat, said seat havingupper and lower bevels at two distinct angles, one bevel being` adaptedto rest tightly on a widely flared milk or cream can neck, the otherbevel being adapt-ed lor similar engagement with a less widely flaredneck.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto arlixed my signature.

JULIUS HEUSSER.

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